Google celebrates water on the moon with a doodle
Google has been updating their homepage logo to celebrate events. And the latest one highlights one of the most important scientific findings.
NASA has just confirmed that they discovered large amount of water on the moon.
And Google has a new doodle on their homepage celebrating this [...]
India terminates its first unmanned moon mission
Indian Space Research organisation has announced that the nation’s first unmanned moon mission is now finished.
ISRO is no longer able to connect to the spacecraft Chandrayaan.
ISRO Chief G Madhavan Nair said in a statement: “We are disappointed with what has happened, but we have managed to salvage [...]
NASA launches two probes for the moon!
US space agency NASA is aiming for the moon once again.
NASA has launched two unmanned space probes which would travel to the moon looking for suitable places for astronauts to land in the future.
This is incidentally the first such attempt in almost 10 years for the [...]
Chandrayaan-1 has been a massive success for ISRO
ISRO has said that Chandrayaan-1 has been a massive success for India as it has been performing flawlessly since the launch.
Chandrayaan-1 has beamed back more than 40,000 images since its launch in October last year.
These images are beamed to Indian Deep Space Network at Byalalu near [...]
ISRO aiming for a manned mission in 6-7 years
Indian Space Agency ISRO has said in a statement that they are planning on launching a manned mission to space in the next 6-7 years.
ISRO has just successfully completed their Chandrayaan-1 unmanned mission to moon.
They have submitted a proposal to the Prime Minister asking [...]
India clears launch of Chandrayaan-II
Indian government has now given their approval for the Chandrayaan-II mission.
ISRO plans to launch Chandrayaan-II in 2011-12.
The approval was required to get enough funds for this mission.
Chandrayaan-I has been massively successful for ISRO and is a proud achievement for India.
Chandrayaan-I Project Director Mylswamy Annadurai said in a statement that [...]
ISRO aiming for manned mission to Moon in 2014
Indian Space Research Organization has said that they are aiming to launch a manned mission to Moon in 2014.
They are already scheduled to launch the first unmanned mission to the moon on October 22.
ISRO is working on plans to launch the manned mission using a Geo-Synchronous Satellite [...]
ISRO aims to launch Chandrayaan-I sometime this year
Indian space agency ISRO has revealed that they are planning to launch the country’s first unmanned moon mission, Chandrayaan-I sometime later this year.
ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair spoke about their plans: “We are hopeful of launching the spacecraft in the third quarter of 2008-09. The mission would be [...]
Boeing wins NASA order for Ares I rocket
US based airline company Boeing has confirmed that they have now won a contract valued at about $800 million to build the flight-control unit of Ares I rocket for the US space agency NASA.
The Ares I rocket is part of the program being designed to take the man [...]
